Welcome [sc:MainTutorial]This tutorial can now be purchased in ebook form at Amazon for $2.99. Alternately, you can contact me for a free PDF version. WordPress is an excellent platform for building and maintaining your personal, professional, organizational or corporate website. But whether you’re building a basic web site, blog or sophisticated organizational site, there are a broad […]
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Import and Archive Your Tweets With WordPress
Recently, I wrote about an excellent open source WordPress plugin and theme which automatically imports your Twitter stream to a WordPress site. Google once had a search partnership with Twitter, but after this expired it left the discoverability of your tweet archive a bit to chance. Furthermore, search engine traffic to Twitter.com doesn’t build your website’s […]
Is Ghost a good WordPress alternative?
In Keeping Up With Ghost at Tuts+, I write an overview of the new Ghost blogging system. Ghost has a lot going for it but it will mostly appeal to more technical folks rather than novice WordPress users: I’m a longtime WordPress user and the platform is admittedly slow and cumbersome. WordPress recently raised $160 million […]
Sign Up with WPEngine
This is the second part of our hosting WordPress with WP Engine series. Read the earlier WordPress Hosting with WPEngine. Sign Up With WP Engine If you”re ready to get started with WP Engine, visit its Plans & Pricing page click the Host My Website button appropriate for the plan level you’d like to start with: Create an […]
Even the CIA Needs WordPress Help Sometimes
It was fun to see someone at the Central Intelligence Agency benefiting from our WordPress tutorials!
WordPress Hosting with WPEngine
Build a Website with WPEngine If you want to start or build a website on WordPress, WPEngine is an excellent WordPress hosting provider to explore. In this series, we’ll review and explore the basics of starting a website or migrating WordPress websites to WPEngine. Whether you’re building a professional website or a regularly updated news or […]
Generate Social Media Traffic With the Social Locker Plugin
Generating income is the most difficult challenge in blogging, but it’s easier once you’ve grown your site traffic. So finding ways to generate social media traffic for your site is always valuable. While many themes and plugins make it easier for readers to share your content, few drive them to do it. Social Locker is […]
Add a Beautiful Table of Contents to Your WordPress Posts
If you write longer blog posts and want to give your readers a structured way to navigate your pages and posts, the free Table of Contents Plus plugin is an elegant solution. It automatically generates a Table of Contents on your page from section headings, resembling very much the great collapsible Wikipedia style contents boxes shown […]
Build a Mobile App for WordPress Using AppPresser
If you have a popular WordPress site, you might have wondered how hard it may be to build a mobile app for your subscribers and/or visitors. There are a number of ways to launch apps powered directly from your WordPress site without having to build an app from scratch. With a mobile app, you can […]
How to Solve WordPress Could Not Create Directory
If you’re trying to upgrade WordPress or install a plugin and getting the “could not create directory” error, there are two levels required to solving it. Here’s an example of the error sequence: Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/your-plugin.0.9.3.1.zip… Unpacking the update… Could not create directory. /wp-content/upgrade/yourplugin.tmp Return to Plugins page 1. Web Server Ownership The first […]